Elle McHugh English L202 Paper 2 – Analysis October 15‚ 2012 The Poetry of “Cosmic Love” Emerging in the summer of 2009‚ Florence and the Machine‚ a British indie-rock band‚ has a style of a mix between soul and rock. Nonetheless‚ their sound is best described by their lead singer Florence Welch as‚ “something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up . . .” That said‚ their music contains an ethereal intensity with poetic elements that set them apart from other music. Such
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Techniques of Appreciating Poetry What is poetry? * Poetry is the creativity of a person’s imagination. * It is nothing but rhythmical‚ imaginative language expressing the invention‚ taste‚ thought‚ passion‚ and insight of the human soul. * Like any other literary work‚ poetry needs to be understood to be appreciated. * The writer writes for a reason. * The purpose may be to evoke emotion‚ inform‚ define‚ represent something of the world or life‚ and to entertain. * Whatever
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ELIZABETH BISHOP’S POETRY. The descriptive‚ vibrant language of Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry appeals to every reader in all of her poems. Disorder plays a large part in Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry and the descriptive insight of “Filling Station”. The “Filling Station” expands on her views of controlling the chaos. “Somebody waters the plant… Somebody arranges the rows of cans” indicates that there is someone behind the scenes cleaning and caring for the filling station‚ someone we don’t see in the
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Poetry are stanzas filled with art full of meaning whether it’s rhyming or a short poem. Poetry is a detailed story in just a few lines‚ that takes you through someone’s journey. What someone has to say in poetry can simply be read and understood in a simple stanza that can relate or connect to others in various ways.These epic poems are for everybody’s read‚ as well as to comprehend‚ and appreciate.Since poetry is a written form of art‚ the once famous Langston Hughes takes us through his major
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What Is Poetry? by John Stuart Mill It has often been asked‚ What Is Poetry? And many and various are the answers which have been returned. The vulgarest of all--one with which no person possessed of the faculties to which poetry addresses itself can ever have been satisfied--is that which confounds poetry with metrical composition; yet to this wretched mockery of a definition many have been led back by the failure of all their attempts to find any other that would distinguish what they have been
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The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop: A Personal Response In my answer I will be talking about my ideas on the themes‚ styles‚ and images in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. Elizabeth Bishop was born on the 8th of February 1911 in Worcester‚ Massachusetts. Her father died when she was eight months old and her mother‚ in shock‚ was sent to a mental hospital for five years. They were separated in 1916 until her mother finally died in 1934. She was raised by her grandparents in Nova Scotia. There are four
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“Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1982) intertwines feminism and poetry together. Author Audre Lorde says that for women‚ “poetry is not a luxury‚ but a necessity of our existence” (Lorde‚ 1982‚ pg. 281). In today’s society‚ women’s opinions aren’t really expressed‚ because it’s not widely accepted in this man-built world. Lorde’s quote “poetry is not a luxury‚ but a necessity of our existence” means that women should use their voices and channel their energy into poetry. Since poetry is accepted‚ women
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Impersonal Theory of Poetry. The central point of T.S. Eliot’s Impersonal Theory of Poetry is that ’the poet‚ the man‚ and the poet‚ the artist are two different entities’. The poet has no ’personality’ of his own. He submerges his own personality‚ his own feelings and experiences into the personality and feelings of the subject of his poetry. The experiences or impressions which are obviously autobiographical may be of great interest to the writer himself‚ but not to his readers
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Understanding Narrative Poetry What is Narrative Poetry? Narrative Poems are poems that tell stories. There is a beginning‚ which introduces the background to the story‚ a middle‚ which tells the action of the event‚ and an end‚ which concludes and summarizes the story. What are the origins of Narrative Poetry? Narratives are the oldest form of poetry. Long before there was paper to write on or ink to write with‚ long before the invention of the printing press‚ people often shared stories as
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or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables. In poetry and prose‚ the use‚ within a line or phrase‚ of words beginning with the same sound‚ as in Two tired toads trotting to Tewkesbury. It was a common device in Old English literature‚ and its use survives in many traditional phrases‚ such as dead as a doornail and pretty as a picture. Alliteration is used in modern poetry more sparingly than in Old English‚ as an emphasis for certain imagery or words. While
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